GIS Day technically happens once a year. This year it formally takes place on Wednesday, November 16, 2016. For this internship course in the spring, however, we are honoring the day in our own way. Improvising a bit.
I am currently working for a cultural resource management company in North Dakota. Thus, my "office" ranges from the great outdoors to the hotel lobby to the desk in my hotel room. GIS has come up naturally throughout the work day. The company I work for employs GIS analysts to compile soil profiles and artifact density analyses post-excavation. When my archaeology and GIS worlds combine sparks fly. We are under a serious time constraint so conversations about GIS are informal and casual.
In an effort to devote a block of time out of my day to GIS (outside of this course), I invited some coworkers to listen to an informal presentation about what I have learned so about GIS. I showed them the ArcGIS interface and discussed automating geoprocessing tasks with Python. I also showed them maps I have made throughout the course via this blog. I particularly enjoy remote sensing (and space archaeology is a hot topic right now) so I spent a good chunk of time discussing remote sensing imagery and its capabilities. It was fun to share my experience with them. I am pretty sure I convinced a few people of the necessity for GIS literacy.
Happy GIS Day from the past! There are plenty of GIS Day festivities in Colorado and I hope to attend at least one. We'll see what November holds for me. Until then, I will keep discussing GIS to anyone who will listen.
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| Reviewing maps I have made over the course of the program with coworkers. |
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